Mulholland Drive

Deviant obsessions: how David Lynch predicted our fragmented times

His work is freaky and frightening, yet today the Twin Peaks director cuts an almost cosy figure. As he turns 77 – a number of significance – we explore how real life caught up with his dark visions

Phil Hoad

09, Jan, 2023 @6:00 AM

‘My voice lends itself to sadness – I carry a lot of grief’: Rebekah Del Rio, David Lynch’s musical muse

Before she met Lynch, Del Rio’s only hit was in the Netherlands. But her sorrowful singing in Mulholland Drive changed everything. She talks about the death of her son, being homeless and overcoming life’s hurdles

Angelica Frey

14, Jul, 2022 @2:00 PM

Mulholland Drive at 20: David Lynch’s audacious puzzle remains a mystery

The daring film-maker’s 2001 Hollywood-set thriller is as dazzling, and unknowably ambiguous, as ever

Scott Tobias

12, Oct, 2021 @6:19 AM

Robert Forster: a coolly charismatic character actor with an intensely sympathetic air

Forster was a performer whose all-American looks could convey a deeper, more complex personality, something Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch picked up on

Peter Bradshaw

12, Oct, 2019 @11:59 AM

The 100 best films of the 21st century

Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

Peter Bradshaw, Cath Clarke, Andrew Pulver and Catherine Shoard

13, Sep, 2019 @5:00 AM

Sex scenes can and do exploit the vulnerable | Vanessa Thorpe

Equity is right to defend its members from being abused while filming

Vanessa Thorpe

25, Feb, 2018 @12:01 AM

Naomi Watts: ‘My soul was being destroyed’

At 32, she was unhireable. At 48, she is unmissable. The Gypsy star talks lucky breaks, bad reviews and being in therapy

Tom Lamont

15, Jul, 2017 @8:00 AM

Fast & Furious 8 barrels past Boss Baby to top of UK box office

Marking the start of summer blockbuster season, F&F8 screeches into first place, while The Sense of an Ending and The Handmaiden fought it out in arthouses

Charles Gant

19, Apr, 2017 @9:59 AM

Mulholland Drive review – David Lynch's delirious masterpiece still stands tall

The virtuoso director has never topped this erotic, eerie commentary on Hollywood, featuring a stunning breakthrough performance by Naomi Watts

Peter Bradshaw

14, Apr, 2017 @6:00 AM

Mulholland Drive: David Lynch’s masterpiece is a wide-open work of art

Back in cinemas this week, the 2001 carnival of dream logic is beyond interpretation – which is why it’s the director’s best film

John Patterson

10, Apr, 2017 @9:00 AM

Mrs Brown’s Boys v Mulholland Drive: a culture showdown

They were named the best sitcom and film of the 21st century, so a movie critic and TV critic swap places to reveal where these contenders shine on the big and small screen

Ryan Gilbey and Bruce Dessau

23, Aug, 2016 @4:23 PM